Recaps

Qian Renxue convinced Qian Daoliu to let her go to the Heaven Dou Empire, and he gave her the Qian Family’s Inherited Soul Bone and arranged protection. The next morning, Bibi Dong confronted Qian Daoliu at the Angel God Statue and taunted him about his son’s death.

• Qian Renxue knelt and pleaded with Qian Daoliu to let her go to Heaven Dou, saying she wanted to fulfill her mission and try to untie her mother’s knot in her heart.
• Qian Daoliu reluctantly agreed, helped Qian Renxue up, and told her to return immediately if she faced danger.
• Qian Daoliu said She Long and Ci Xue would protect Qian Renxue and gave her the Qian Family’s Inherited Soul Bone, which could change her Martial Soul’s form and her appearance.
• Qian Daoliu urged Qian Renxue to protect herself and promised that her safety mattered more than Spirit Hall’s ambitions; she vowed to return safely.
• The next morning, Bibi Dong entered the hall as Qian Daoliu prayed before the Angel God Statue and mocked his devotion, bringing up his son’s death.
• Qian Daoliu tightened his grip on his staff and rebuked Bibi Dong for her insolence.

Bibi Dong confronted Qian Daoliu over Qian Renxue’s mission to the Heaven Dou Empire, but his words forced her to face her lingering love for her daughter. Three days later, Qian Renxue departed with She Long and Ci Xue, leaving Qian Daoliu to wait for her return.

• Bibi Dong told Qian Daoliu that Qian Renxue had agreed to go to the Heaven Dou Empire and declared that she wanted to see the Qian Family destroyed.
• Qian Daoliu pointed out that Bibi Dong’s fear for Qian Renxue revealed her maternal love, and Bibi Dong broke down in tears after he left.
• Three days later, Qian Daoliu warned Qian Renxue to prioritize her safety and told She Long and Ci Xue to protect her.
• Qian Renxue knelt and kowtowed to Qian Daoliu, apologized for worrying him, and said she could not stay by his side often.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue to pursue what she wanted and promised to wait for her at home with her favorite osmanthus cakes.

Qian Renxue left Martial Soul Holy City after saying goodbye to Qian Daoliu and expressing her love for Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong watched her go and secretly ordered Ghost Douluo to follow, while Su Yu and Little Gray saw Qian Renxue off on the road.

• Qian Renxue embraced Qian Daoliu, who told her he would wait for her to come home.
• Qian Renxue stopped beneath an old locust tree and told her absent mother that she still loved her and would do anything she asked.
• Bibi Dong arrived after Qian Renxue had left, regretted how she had treated her, and ordered Yue Guan to have Ghost Douluo follow her secretly.
• Su Yu met Qian Renxue at a fork in the road and brought Little Gray to see her off.
• Qian Renxue left Little Gray with Su Yu and warned him to take good care of the dog.

After six months, Bibi Dong ordered Su Yu and Hu Liena to prepare for Spirit Hall Academy’s Freshman Competition and arranged for Xiao Yi to train them. Xiao Yi explained the two events and began their preparation for the Wilderness Trial.

• Qian Renxue departed, and Su Yu stayed behind with Little Gray until her carriage disappeared.
• Over the next half year, Little Gray grew close to both Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong and became a pampered fixture in the Pope Hall.
• Bibi Dong told Su Yu and Hu Liena that they had to place in the Freshman Competition’s top three and arranged special training for them.
• Xiao Yi introduced himself as a rank eighty-three Power Attack System Soul Douluo sent by Bibi Dong to instruct Su Yu and Hu Liena.
• Xiao Yi described the competition’s Command Token Wilderness Trial and Soul Master duels, then told the pair to focus on coordination and real combat.

Xiao Yi sent Su Yu and Hu Liena to the Soul Beast Forest for five days of special training, tasking them with working together to kill a Soul Beast at least eight hundred years old. They found a sheltered base by a river and began tracking a three-hundred-year-old Ironclad Rhinoceros, waiting for it to leave the drinking area before attacking.

• Xiao Yi took Su Yu and Hu Liena to the Soul Beast Forest and explained that he would not intervene unless their lives were in danger.
• Su Yu used Mind's Eye of the Kagura to scout the area and led Hu Liena southeast to a hollow in a rock face beside a river.
• Su Yu and Hu Liena hid in a tree when an Ironclad Rhinoceros appeared, and Hu Liena estimated it was at least three hundred years old.
• Su Yu told Hu Liena not to attack the Ironclad Rhinoceros by the river, warning that the noise could attract other Soul Beasts.
• When the Ironclad Rhinoceros left the river, Su Yu and Hu Liena followed it through the bushes.

Su Yu and Hu Liena worked together to kill an Ironclad Rhinoceros and gathered its meat for dinner. Over the next three days, they hunted several more Soul Beasts while Xiao Yi secretly watched and approved of their abilities.

• Su Yu and Hu Liena coordinated their attacks, using his Wood Release techniques and her Demon Fox Charm to wound and restrain the Ironclad Rhinoceros.
• Su Yu caused wooden spikes to grow through the Ironclad Rhinoceros's body, and Hu Liena struck its hind-leg joint before it collapsed and died.
• Su Yu cut tenderloin from the Ironclad Rhinoceros and invited Hu Liena to look for fruit or mushrooms to add to dinner.
• Over three days, Su Yu and Hu Liena worked together to kill seven or eight Soul Beasts over six hundred years old.
• Xiao Yi watched them from the shadows and felt satisfied with their combat adaptability and composure.

Xiao Yi secretly lured a powerful soul beast toward Su Yu and Hu Liena to test their limits, and the pair faced a Golden-Eyed Tiger at least a thousand years old. After their attacks failed to quickly defeat it, Su Yu trapped it in a net of wooden vines, but its eye-beam began burning through the bindings.

• Xiao Yi scattered Frenzy Beast Powder into a mountain crevice and hid nearby to watch Su Yu and Hu Liena.
• After defeating a seven-hundred-year Gale Wolf, Su Yu pulled Hu Liena out of the way of a Golden-Eyed Tiger's ambush.
• Su Yu warned Hu Liena that the tiger was at least a thousand years old and shielded her as it attacked.
• Hu Liena used Demon Fox Charm and struck at the tiger's closed vertical eye, but the blade bounced off and the tiger began charging its beam.
• Su Yu blocked the beam with his demon-faced wooden shield, then wounded the tiger with Thorn Killing Technique vines.
• Su Yu bound the tiger in a dense net of wooden vines, but the tiger opened its vertical eye and burned a gap through the bindings.

Su Yu killed the Golden-Eyed Tiger and discovered that its glowing third eye was an External Soul Bone. He began explaining the rare treasure to Hu Liena as they examined the corpse.

• Su Yu used wooden vines and his Cutting Technique to kill the Golden-Eyed Tiger, leaving a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring above its corpse.
• Hu Liena was shocked by how quickly Su Yu defeated the beast and accused him of having played along with her during their earlier hunts.
• Su Yu and Hu Liena found a faintly glowing third eye on the tiger's forehead, and Su Yu identified it as an External Soul Bone.
• Hu Liena admitted that she knew Soul Bones occupied six locations on the body, and Su Yu praised her for remembering.

Su Yu and Hu Liena completed Xiao Yi’s trial by defeating a Golden-Eyed Tiger and discovering that it possessed a rare, evolving External Soul Bone. They returned to Pope Hall, where Bibi Dong asked Xiao Yi how the two had performed during their trials.

• Su Yu explained the abilities and value of External Soul Bones to Hu Liena, including their ability to evolve.
• Su Yu removed the Golden-Eyed Tiger’s Vertical Eye External Soul Bone and showed it to Hu Liena.
• Xiao Yi revealed that he had arranged the Golden-Eyed Tiger encounter as the final stage of their trial and had not known it carried an External Soul Bone.
• Su Yu placed the External Soul Bone in a jade box, and he, Hu Liena, and Xiao Yi returned to Pope Hall.
• Bibi Dong examined the External Soul Bone and asked Xiao Yi how Su Yu and Hu Liena had performed in their trials.

After the trials, Su Yu received the External Soul Bone from the Golden-Eyed Tiger and absorbed it under Bibi Dong’s protection. The bone granted him an offensive skill, Tiger Flame Demon Light, which he was about to demonstrate to Bibi Dong.

• Bibi Dong praised Su Yu and Hu Liena’s performance and told them to decide who would receive the External Soul Bone.
• Hu Liena argued that the offensive Soul Bone suited Su Yu better, and he accepted it.
• Bibi Dong shielded the hall while Su Yu endured the pain of merging with the Soul Bone.
• Su Yu completed the absorption and discovered that the Soul Bone had granted him an offensive Soul Skill.
• Bibi Dong told Su Yu to test the skill on her, and he activated Tiger Flame Demon Light.

Su Yu tested his thousand-year External Soul Bone Skill against Bibi Dong’s defense, then prepared with Hu Liena for the Freshman Competition. The first trial began as teams entered a mountain to collect Command Tokens, with the pair holding on to their hopes of taking first place.

• Su Yu’s Soul Bone Skill failed to break Bibi Dong’s barrier, but she praised its strength and encouraged him to keep honing it.
• Bibi Dong told Su Yu and Hu Liena to follow Xiao Yi’s plan and bring back first place in the Freshman Competition.
• Hu Liena excitedly predicted that Su Yu’s Soul Bone would help them win, and Su Yu agreed.
• Three days later, Xu Ding opened the Freshman Competition and announced that its first trial required pairs to find and collect Command Tokens on a mountain within twenty-four hours.
• Xu Ding explained that teams could steal tokens from one another and that the pair with the most tokens would win the first trial.
• Su Yu and Hu Liena exchanged an understanding glance as the freshmen formed teams and charged toward the mountain.

Su Yu and Hu Liena quickly gathered more Command Tokens than any other team in the mountain assessment, then settled into a wooden house Su Yu built with his Wood Release Martial Soul. They planned to take other teams’ tokens the next day.

• Su Yu and Hu Liena entered the mountain together and used their abilities to find and defeat Soul Beasts carrying Command Tokens.
• After two hours, they had collected thirty-three Command Tokens, far ahead of the second-place team’s eleven.
• Su Yu told Hu Liena they would rob other teams for their tokens the next day, and she agreed.
• Su Yu used Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique to build a wooden house where they could rest for the night.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo, Holy Dragon Douluo, and Bibi Dong watched the pair’s progress and reacted to Su Yu’s improvised lodging.

Su Yu and Hu Liena defended their cabin during the first assessment, defeating teams that tried to steal their Command Tokens and collecting more than two hundred. They returned to the Martial Arts Arena as the assessment ended, while Su Yu regretted not encountering Xie Yue.

• Lao Tie and Lao Mo tried to ambush Su Yu at the cabin, but Su Yu trapped them with vines and took their Command Tokens.
• Su Yu and Hu Liena found the students who had attacked them bound to trees, and Su Yu left them there until noon.
• Su Yu and Hu Liena strolled through the forest, confident that their growing pile of Command Tokens secured the assessment.
• By noon, Su Yu and Hu Liena had collected more than two hundred Command Tokens, while the teams they had defeated had none left.
• Su Yu and Hu Liena returned to the Martial Arts Arena with their Command Tokens as the assessment ended.

Su Yu and Hu Liena won the first assessment with 223 command tokens, and Bibi Dong praised them before the individual tournament began. Su Yu drew a first-round match against Zhang Hao, whose flames forced Su Yu to change how he attacked with Wood Release.

• Su Yu and Hu Liena presented 223 command tokens, earning first place in the team assessment.
• Xu Ding announced that the next assessment would be an individual soul fighting tournament.
• Bibi Dong praised Su Yu and Hu Liena and urged them to maintain their momentum.
• Hu Liena drew a first-round bye, while Su Yu drew number fifteen and was paired against Zhang Hao.
• Zhang Hao attacked Su Yu with Flame Impact, but Su Yu dodged and sent thorn-covered wooden vines toward him.
• Zhang Hao used his Blazing Sun Bird’s flames to repel the vines, so Su Yu sent vines in from multiple directions and around the flames.

Su Yu defeated Zhang Hao with his Wood Release, while Hu Liena and several other students qualified for the top ten. Su Yu then faced Xie Yue, whose rapid Moon Blade attacks failed to break through Su Yu’s wooden defenses.

• Su Yu trapped Zhang Hao’s Blazing Sun Bird flames inside a wall of resilient vines, and Zhang Hao conceded the match.
• Hu Liena defeated her Star Spirit Staff opponent, and the final qualifying matches established the top ten, including Su Yu, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and the White-Armored Earth Dragon boy.
• Su Yu was matched against Xie Yue, and both entered the arena determined to fight.
• Xie Yue attacked Su Yu with his Moon Blade, but Su Yu blocked the strikes with a vine shield and dodged his follow-up slashes.
• Xie Yue used Moon Wheel Dance to attack from multiple directions, but Su Yu’s Wood Locking Wall stopped the blades with only shallow marks.

Su Yu defeated Xie Yue by trapping him with Wood Release, and Hu Liena won her match before facing Lin Yifeng in the next round. Hu Liena gained the upper hand against Lin Yifeng with her charm and close-combat skills, and their fight remained underway.

• Su Yu used Wood Release vines to bind Xie Yue, and the referee declared him the winner.
• Hu Liena defeated her Gale Wolf King opponent, and the five remaining contestants were Su Yu, Hu Liena, Tuoba Yu, Yan, and Lin Yifeng.
• Su Yu drew a bye while Hu Liena was matched against Lin Yifeng.
• Lin Yifeng used Spear Shadow, but Hu Liena's Demon Fox Charm briefly dazed him and let her evade his attack.
• Hu Liena struck Lin Yifeng with a punch and a sweeping kick, then confronted him as pink light flashed in her eyes.

Hu Liena defeated Lin Yifeng, and Tuoba Yu defeated Yan, setting up a match between Tuoba Yu and Su Yu. Su Yu restrained Tuoba Yu with wooden techniques, but the battle was left hanging when the cracked wooden strips suddenly began writhing.

• Hu Liena used close-combat strikes and the Iron Mountain Lean to defeat Lin Yifeng.
• Tuoba Yu charged through Yan's flames and knocked him off the platform with a powerful punch.
• Su Yu and Tuoba Yu began their match, with Tuoba Yu using his White-Armored Earth Dragon Martial Soul to attack.
• Su Yu bound Tuoba Yu with vines, then used the Thorn Killing Technique to restrict him around the waist.
• Tuoba Yu cracked the wooden restraints with his fists, but the strips suddenly began writhing before he could break free.

Su Yu defeated Tuoba Yu in the Freshman Competition finals and then began his individual match against Hu Liena. He resisted her charm with his Sharingan, trapped her in an illusion, and teased her during their ensuing fight, which ended with Hu Liena protesting that she could not beat him.

• Su Yu restrained Tuoba Yu with Wood Release branches, and the referee declared Su Yu the winner.
• Hu Liena congratulated Su Yu before they entered the arena for the final individual match.
• Hu Liena used Demon Fox Charm, but Su Yu’s One-Tomoe Sharingan turned the mental attack back on her and trapped her in an illusion.
• Su Yu woke Hu Liena from her fantasy of being pampered by a grown-up version of him, leaving her embarrassed.
• Hu Liena charged with close-combat techniques, but Su Yu dodged and playfully slapped her, prompting her to complain that he was bullying her and that she could not defeat him.

Su Yu won the Spirit Hall Freshman Competition and, three years later, returned from training stronger than before. He proposed recruiting Dugu Bo to aid Spirit Hall’s future wars, and Bibi Dong approved his plan to travel to Heaven Dou City to recruit him.

• Su Yu evaded Hu Liena until she gave up, and the referee declared him the Freshman Competition champion.
• Bibi Dong awarded Su Yu the Rising Star Medal, praised Hu Liena’s progress, and congratulated both students.
• Three years passed; Su Yu reached rank twenty-six, gained a three-thousand-year second Soul Ring, and evolved his Sharingan to two tomoe, while Hu Liena became a Soul Grandmaster.
• After returning from his training journey, Su Yu advised Bibi Dong to recruit members of the Lower Four Sects and singled out Dugu Bo for his poison arts.
• Bibi Dong agreed that Dugu Bo could be valuable and approved Su Yu’s request to go to Heaven Dou City to recruit him, then asked whom he planned to take.

Su Yu and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan traveled to Heaven Dou City to recruit Dugu Bo, while Su Yu explained that Dugu Bo might be suffering from toxins caused by his martial soul. At the end, Ci Xue and Yu Long informed the Second Imperial Prince that Su Yu had arrived and sought to recruit Poison Douluo.

• Bibi Dong refused to accompany Su Yu to Heaven Dou City, advising him to approach Dugu Bo with sincerity and learn his background if he refused.
• Su Yu and Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan traveled to Heaven Dou City and sent a visiting card to Dugu Manor.
• Su Yu told Yue Guan that Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor toxins might have spread through his body and that he could be suppressing them with something.
• Ci Xue and Yu Long told the Second Imperial Prince that Su Yu and Yue Guan had arrived and were seeking to recruit Poison Douluo.

Qian Renxue arranged to meet someone while disguised as Xue Qinghe, and Su Yu visited Dugu Bo to invite him to join Spirit Hall. The meeting turned hostile when Su Yu claimed Dugu Bo was poisoned, prompting Dugu Bo to seize him.

• Qian Renxue first refused to arrange a meeting, then told She Long and Ci Xue to arrange one for the next few days.
• Dugu Bo received Su Yu’s visiting card and agreed to meet him at his residence the following day at noon.
• Su Yu and Chrysanthemum Douluo met Dugu Bo, whose Soul Power and poisonous aura sparked an exchange of threats between the two Titled Douluos.
• Su Yu invited Dugu Bo to join Spirit Hall, but Dugu Bo refused and told him to leave.
• Su Yu suggested that Dugu Bo was suffering from poison, and Dugu Bo seized him by the collar as Chrysanthemum Douluo threatened to intervene.

Su Yu stopped Dugu Bo from attacking by revealing that he knew about the poison afflicting him and his family, then negotiated a partnership with the Poison Douluo. Dugu Bo agreed to let Su Yu choose herbs from his garden if he cured them, and Su Yu began explaining the cause and possible treatment of the poison backlash.

• Su Yu described Dugu Bo’s painful symptoms and warned that his toxins had spread throughout his body.
• Dugu Bo attacked Su Yu, but stopped when Su Yu said he could cure the poison and revealed that Dugu Bo’s son and granddaughter were also afflicted.
• Su Yu offered Dugu Bo a place in Spirit Hall, treatment for his family, and academy studies for his granddaughter in exchange for learning how Dugu Bo became a Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo explained that a pool in Sunset Forest had suppressed his toxins and offered Su Yu anything he wanted from the garden if he cured the family.
• Su Yu outlined two treatment methods and said Dugu Bo’s poison cultivation technique was the main cause of the backlash.

Su Yu explained that Dugu Bo could transfer the toxins in his body into a Soul Bone, with Yue Guan helping develop medicine for the process. Dugu Bo led them to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Yue Guan recognized the aromatic silk beauty, an immortal herb that could counter poisons.

• Su Yu told Dugu Bo that storing his toxins in a Soul Bone could protect his body, and Yue Guan offered to help create medicine for the transfer.
• Dugu Bo took Su Yu and Yue Guan through his poison formation in Sunset Forest and led them down into the valley.
• Su Yu and Yue Guan discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, surrounded by rare medicinal plants.
• Yue Guan recognized the aromatic silk beauty as a legendary immortal herb and hurried toward it.

Su Yu and Dugu Bo explored a garden of rare immortal herbs with Yue Guan, who was overwhelmed by the sight of his Martial Soul’s matching herb. Su Yu discovered the legendary Chaos Twin-Life Grass, but Yue Guan asked him to give up the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum.

• Yue Guan recognized the aromatic silk beauty as an exceptionally rare immortal herb, while Dugu Bo dismissed his excitement.
• Su Yu urged Yue Guan and Dugu Bo to continue exploring the garden, and Yue Guan hurried ahead.
• Yue Guan found the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and reacted with deep emotion.
• Su Yu spotted the Chaos Twin-Life Grass, which could evolve the two Martial Souls of a Soul Master with Twin Martial Souls.
• Yue Guan bowed to Su Yu and asked him to give him the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum.

Su Yu and Yue Guan agreed to conceal the immortal herbs from Spirit Hall and chose several to take, while arranging herbs and Soul Bones to treat Dugu Bo's family. The chapter ended with Yue Guan preparing Dugu Bo's antidote as the two Douluo bickered.

• Yue Guan pleaded with Su Yu for the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, explaining its importance to his Martial Soul and asking that the immortal herbs be kept from Spirit Hall's consecrators.
• Su Yu agreed to conceal the herbs and selected the Nine-Grade Dragon Ganoderma and Earth Dragon Golden Melon for Dugu Bo's family, advising Dugu Bo to leave the latter for his granddaughter.
• Su Yu told Dugu Bo that Yue Guan could prepare an antidote potion and that Dugu Bo needed Soul Bones for his granddaughter and son; Dugu Bo went to find them.
• Su Yu packed the Chaos Twin-Life Grass for Bibi Dong, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew for himself, the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid for Hu Liena, and the Ghost Immortal Grass for Ghost Douluo.
• Yue Guan returned with medicinal herbs and explained how they would purge Dugu Bo's accumulated poison, then began preparing the potion while Dugu Bo grudgingly moved aside and traded insults with him.